The mechanism of prion strain propagation

Studies of mammalian prion diseases such as bovine spongiform encephalopathy have suggested that different strains consist of prion proteins with different conformations. Two recent studies of yeast prions have now formally demonstrated that multiple stable protein conformations are the basis of strain variation. deposited research Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) are a group of closely related neurodegenerative conditions of animals